With the monthly checks from the Social Security Act of 1935, it provided financial insurance to the helpless people in tough times. By providing benefits for unemployment, retirement, and welfare for the needy, they are entitled to the benefits from paying taxes that were cut from their own paychecks. With the Social Security Act intact, the federal government formed the principle that they should be responsible for the population who are unable to work to support themselves. In addition to the Social Security Act, the New Deal program was effective as shown in the historical cartoon of the Evolution of progress with the New Deal programs for relief, reform and recovery (C). The New Deal created many successful agencies. For instance, the CCC was formed to provide forestry jobs to prevent another environmental catastrophe like the Dust Bowl while employing 3 million young men. The CCC not only created jobs for the young men, but taught them the lessons of reading and writing. With the skills of literacy, the young men learned how to advance successfully in the world as they move on from the CCC. Furthermore, the New Deal …show more content…
Roosevelt’s administration was ineffective as the federal government was overpowered during the Great Depression. In particular, the New Deal was unsuccessful as the United States is accused of drifting away from a democratic government to socialism and communism in a letter to democratic Senator Robert Wagner (B). With programs that are regulated by the federal government, people feared the federal government is having an imbalanced of power with the state government as the federal government is controlling the economy of the entire United States. Additionally, the New Deal was ineffective as William Lloyd Garrison Jr. reported that the national debt has increased by 6 billion dollars in “The Nation” (D). Franklin D. Roosevelt abandoned previous President of the United State Herbert Hoover’s fear of the refusal of deficit spending. Borrowing federal money and abandoning a balanced budget was necessarily for Franklin D. Roosevelt to pay for his public work projects and human relief programs. The Recession of 1937 had to happen in order for Franklin D. Roosevelt to realize he needed to control the country’s budget once again. Programs like the AAA and the NIRA only temporarily fixed the economic problems. However, in the end the Supreme Court declared them unconstitutional and refused to have the programs funded as they had little use to the economy in the long run. Moreover, the New Deal was limited as republican politician, Charles Evans Hughes, noted how the